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LEAD: President Bush won overwhelming support today from more than 170 members of Congress whom he briefed on the crisis in the Middle East, but several senior lawmakers expressed worry about the patience of the American people in supporting a strategy that may take months to work.
LEAD: The five permanent members of the Security Council announced an agreement today on the main elements of a wide-ranging political settlement that could end almost 20 years of civil war in Cambodia by transferring temporary control of the country to the United Nations.
LEAD: Oil prices turned up yesterday, with the contract for October delivery rising 97 cents, to $27.88 a barrel, as traders searched for a new balance in the market after Monday's $4 plunge, to $26.91.
LEAD: Almost seven years after a New York law ordered Long Island to close most landfills by the end of 1990, a third of the Island's towns and cities do not know how they will meet the approaching deadline.
LEAD: Elisabeth Spector is sitting on some $130 billion in financial securities, including one of the nation's largest portfolios of high-yield ''junk bonds.'' It is all for sale, too, and that makes Ms. Spector, director of finance for the Resolution Trust Corporation, one of the most popular people on Wall
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 29, 1990, covering August 29, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Poison
Mariah Carey
Anita Baker
1990Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer[†]
Jakub Kosecki is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger for V liga Masovia club KS Raszyn.
1990Chris Taylor, American baseball player[†]
Christopher Armand Taylor Jr., nicknamed "CT3", is an American professional baseball utility player for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Dodgers. He played college baseball for the Virginia Cavaliers. Taylor was selected in the fifth round of the 2012 MLB draft and made his MLB debut with the Mariners in 2014. Traded to the Dodgers, Taylor won the National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award in 2017, was a member of the World Series champions in 2020 and 2024, and was an All-Star in 2021.
1990Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer[†]
Patrick John Miguel van Aanholt is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Eredivisie club Sparta Rotterdam.
1990Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author (born 1901)[†]
Manly Palmer Hall was an American writer, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). In 1934 he founded the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]